The Stack Overflow Podcast

Partnerships can keep open source sustainable

Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan welcomes VoidZero’s Evan You and Cloudflare’s Dane Knecht back to the show to discuss Cloudflare’s recent acquisition of VoidZero and what it means for JavaScript development, how partnerships like theirs can help open-source projects stay maintained and sustainably monetized, and how Cloudflare’s distributed systems are helping to improve developer experience in Vite and beyond.

Episode notes:

VoidZero is now officially a part of Cloudflare. You can read more about the recent acquisition here.

Connect with Evan on LinkedIn and X. Check out Evan’s previous episodes on the pod for a deep dive on the evolutions of Vite and Vue.js.

Connect with Dane on LinkedIn and X. Listen to Dane’s previous episode of Leaders of Code to learn how Cloudflare is building a better internet.

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The future of development is full-stack

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Live from Snowflake Summit, Ryan talks with Snowflake’s Head of Developer Experience Umesh Unnikrishnan about the industry-wide shift from “vibe coding” for quick prototypes to agentic engineering for enterprise-ready software, how enterprises can scale governance with guardrails like human-in-the-loop approval and control layers that go beyond the underlying LLM, and why Umesh predicts all developers will become someday become full-stack builders.

Episode notes:

This episode was recorded at Snowflake Summit. You can learn more about CoCo and Snowflake’s other new releases on their website.

Connect with Umesh on LinkedIn or reach out to him at Umesh.Unnikrishnan@snowflake.com

Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of engineering at Snowflake, also sat down this us at this year’s Snowflake Summit to break down the five-stage framework his org used to go from "let chaos reign" to a repeatable, org-wide system for AI-assisted engineering. Listen to his episode of Leaders of Code.

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Developers who move fast still need to do it together

Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

At MS Build, Ryan is joined by Cassidy Williams, Senior Director of Developer Advocacy at GitHub and former Stack Overflow Podcast host, to discuss how agentic coding is shifting dev work towards higher-level strategy while increasing decision fatigue; why human taste, community feedback, and mentorship are becoming more essential than ever for developer careers; and the new GitHub Copilot announcements coming out of Microsoft, including the new GitHub Copilot app.

Episode notes:

This episode was recorded at Microsoft Build. You can learn more about what they announced at the show and what’s new at GitHub here.

Listen to our other episodes recorded at Build on agentic workflows and responsible AI.

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Your AI is only as responsible as you are

Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Recorded at Microsoft Build, Ryan welcomes Sarah Bird, Microsoft’s Chief Product Officer for Responsible AI, about how we can build and use AI responsibly with the NIST approach, why most irresponsible AI comes from experimentation without thought of impact, and how Microsoft is researching thoughtful human/AI workflow design to reduce unnecessary escalation.

Episode notes:

This episode was recorded at Microsoft Build. Listen to our other episode recorded at Build on agentic workflows here.

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Building more than just an agent harness

Fri, 10 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Live from Microsoft Build, Ryan is joined by Jay Parikh, Microsoft’s VP of AI Core, for a conversation on what enterprises need to build, deploy, and run AI agents at scale with demonstrable ROI; how Microsoft built an end-to-end agent development system that goes past just the harness; and how you can evaluate for reliability and correctness in models that get more intelligent and autonomous everyday.

Episode notes:

This episode was recorded at Microsoft Build. Learn more about the announcement and news from Build, including Microsoft’s new GitHub app and Foundry platform, at the Microsoft blog.

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What's left for infrastructure-as-code after AI moves in?

Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Agent orchestration is so two-years ago

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan welcomes Saahil Jain, CTO of You.com, to discuss why building agents with a 2024 mindset is a mistake as modern models improve at long-horizon tasks, why heavy orchestration layers can hurt model performance more than help it, and why the 2026 competitive edge actually comes from information retrieval and unique data paired with end-to-end evaluation.

Episode notes:

You.com is an AI-powered search and productivity engine helping enterprises find information, create content, and automate complex tasks using web search APIs, multi-model AI access, and agentic intelligence.

Connect with Saahil on LinkedIn or reach out to him at saahil@you.com.

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The good, the bad, and the AI apps

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Ryan welcomes Benny Chen, co-founder of Fireworks AI, to the show to explore what actually makes an AI application good or not, how to balance qualitative signals with quantitative metrics when evaluating AI, and how open-source eval protocols and community efforts are setting the standard for AI evaluation.

Episode notes:

Fireworks AI is a cloud platform designed for developers and enterprises to run, customize, and scale open-source generative AI models.

Connect with Benny on LinkedIn.

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How do you turn AI coding chaos into a repeatable playbook?

Thu, 02 Jul 2026 04:00:00 -0000

Vivek Raghunathan, SVP of engineering at Snowflake, joins Leaders of Code at Snowflake Summit to break down the five-stage framework his org used to go from "let chaos reign" to a repeatable, org-wide system for AI-assisted engineering.

Vivek explains how Snowflake systematically rolled out coding agents across its engineering org — starting with unrestricted experimentation, then codifying what worked into a shared vocabulary of 14 "AI design patterns," from plan-in-English to fencing off parallel agents to reducing on-call toil through continuously updated skills. Vivek walks through the "inner loop" and "outer loop" of software development, explains Snowflake's internal Yegge scale for measuring how far engineers have progressed along that continuum, and shares how a three-person team used coding agents to deliver a 40x improvement on Snowflake's query compiler.

The discussion also:

Breaks down Snowflake's "focus weeks," where engineers get dedicated time to either catch up on best practices or push the frontier further.
Explores the pioneers/settlers/skeptics framework for meeting engineers where they are in adopting AI tools, and why the shift can trigger something like the stages of grief.
Covers how Snowflake cut release validation time from 15 days to a single day, and why more automated testing hasn't come at the cost of production stability.
Looks ahead to a four-step maturity model for on-call and incident response, where agents may eventually take primary on-call duty.

Connect with Vivek Raghunathan on LinkedIn.

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Why intent prediction needs more than an LLM

Tue, 30 Jun 2026 04:30:00 -0000

Ryan sits down with Frank Portman, CTO at Yobi, to talk about why next-token prediction, though great for language, isn’t the right inductive bias for forecasting human behavior. They discuss how Yobi builds a “foundation model of behavior” using transformers and graph neural networks instead of chat-style LLMs, and what it takes to run millions of personalization decisions per second while keeping consumer data private.

Episode notes:

Yobi is a behavioral AI company building foundation models that predict future behavior for ad tech, marketing, and more.

Connect with Frank via fportman.com or at yobi.ai.

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